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Volume XXXX, Number 1 February 2008Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society

What’s Inside• What’s Going On• Upcoming Tours

- Colonial Churches- New Amsterdam (New York

City) Anabaptists• Library Catalog Online• Summer Intership• Annual Banquet: 50th Birthday

Celebration• Director’s Reflections• Meet Three Board Members• Genealogy Conference• Spring PA German Classes

EventsMonday, March 3: Society quarter-ly meeting, 7 pm, MellingerMennonite Church, “17th centuryDutch Mennonite Aid to SwissAnabaptists,” with James Lowry

Sunday, March 9: VolunteerAppreciation Tea, 2-4 pm at theSociety

Wednesday, March 12 andThursday, March 13, 10-weekPennsylvania German classes start

Friday, March 14 AND Friday, April18: Benefit Book Auctions, 6:30pm at the Society

April 18-19, Lancaster FamilyHistory Conference at Eden ResortInn, Lancaster, Pa.

Saturday, May 17: Annual Banquet

Monday, June 2, Society quarterlymeeting, 7 pm, author ErvinStutzman discusses his book,Emma: A Widow among the Amish

August 13-16, Annual BookwormFrolic

To educate and inspire Mennonite families and congregations and thebroader community through promotion of the history, beliefs, and lifestyle

of the Mennonite expression of the Anabaptist tradition.

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Around the time of the first communication to Dutch Mennonites inAmsterdam from suffering Swiss Anabaptists (see below), Rembrandt paint-ed these portraits of Pieter Sijen and his wife, Marretje, Dutch Mennonitefriends and patrons in Amsterdam, 1633-4, according to art historian JaapVan der Veen. Given Rembrandt’s Mennonite connections, he likelywould have known about persecution of Swiss counterparts in the faith.For more information about Rembrandt’s ties to Mennonites, contact usfor a paper delivered last fall by Dutch scholar Piet Visser on this subject.

Four good friends sit outsideEmmental’s Show Dairy inAffoltern, Switzerland. Picturedfrom left to right are MajaBurkhalter – an organizer for theAmish exhibit at this site; Joanne

Hess Siegrist — USA liaison chair forSwiss Täuferjahr 2007 [AnabaptistYear 07 in Switzerland]; Elise DavisKägi – an organizer for the Amishexhibit; and Ruth Leuenberger-Moser, of the Reformed Church, along time Swiss hostess forMennonite-Your-Way visitors.Photo credit: Don Siegrist, 2006.

Ten years ago, my husband, Don,and I would have never havedreamed of even half of the Swisshappenings we experienced fromApril 2005 to December 2007. Sinceour college days we loved learning ofour Swiss roots and related Anabap-tist history; however, this time period

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Täuferjahr 2007 andAmazing Surprisesby Joanne Hess Siegrist

Society Hosts March 3Quarterly Meeting“When our ancestors wererefugees: The author reviewshis research on documentsfrom Brotherly Love”

OnMonday, March 3, at 7 pm,the Society will hold our quar-

terly meeting at Mellinger MennoniteChurch. James Lowry, trans-lator and writer of the recent-ly published book,Documents of Brotherly Love:Dutch Mennonite Aid toSwiss Anabaptists, 1635-1709,will be our speaker. At themeeting, David RempelSmucker, one of the book’seditors, will discuss its contri-bution to genealogicalresearch.This ground-breaking book docu-

ments the assistance given to ourSwiss German Mennonite forebearsfrom their Dutch Mennonite counter-parts that ultimately enabled ourancestors to immigrate here toLancaster County Pennsylvaniaalmost 300 years ago.Painstakingly transcribed and

translated by Lowry from Dutch andGerman (and occasionally Latin andFrench), this volume covers the peri-od just prior to immigration toLancaster. Its 82 source documentscome from a treasure trove ofarchival documents that until nowwas largely inaccessible. Lowry has



PaHR-Access (People for BetterPennsylvania Historical RecordsAccess) asks for your help to makePennsylvania state death certificatesfrom 1906-1957 available online,similar to what states like Arizona,Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio,Utah and West Virginia already havedone.

Genealogists experience the frus-tration of having to provide severalpieces of information (includingwhen and where the person died) tofile your request, when quite oftenthe very information you are askedto supply is the very information youare looking for and the very reasonfor your wanting the death certifi-cate.

To change these burdensome andparadoxical restrictions, both Pa. andout-of-state residents are asked tocontact Pennsylvania state officialsMore information available atusers.rcn.com/timarg/PaHR-Accessor contact Tim Gruber, spokesper-son for PaHR-Access [email protected]

Do you enjoy helping peoplefind answers to their questions?The Lancaster Mennonite HistoricalSociety is looking for volunteers toassist visitors in the library on aregular basis. The work involves ori-enting patrons to the library and itsresources, helping visitors to findinformation in the library andarchives, and answering telephonecalls at the reference desk. This is awonderful opportunity to learnwhile volunteering, especially forthose with an interest in family,church, and local history. Help isneeded on Tuesday afternoons andThursdays. Familiarity with comput-ers and a willingness to learnwould be most helpful. For moreinformation contact Steve Ness(717-393-9745; [email protected]).

The Mirror (USPS) is a bimonthly newsletter publishedby the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society,2215 Millstream Road, Lancaster, PA 17602-1499.Phone: 717-393-9745; fax: 717-393-8751.email: [email protected] web address www.lmhs.org.Hours: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm, Tuesday through Saturday.Periodicals postage paid at Lancaster, PA.ISSN 0738-7237. Editor Beth E. Graybill.POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Mirror,Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, 2215Millstream Road, Lancaster, PA 17602-1499

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brought something totally different. While hosting Swiss guests in our

home, visiting in many of theirhomes, and networking for Täuferjahr2007 we experienced wonderful one-on-one exchanges with members ofthe Swiss Reformed Church. Thesebright, warm, energetic, aliveChristians held deep pain as they dis-covered the ways their church hadtreated Anabaptists (or Täufer, inGerman) from 1525 through the early1800’s. We heard their requests forforgiveness and healing. In theirchurch communities, we learnedmore about their quest for reconcilia-tion and new life.

For me personally, these wereholy, profound hours, and soon I wasworking on helping to plan and publi-cize Täuferjahr 2007 events. In theprocess I experienced plans fittingtogether in surprising, timely waysand amazing contacts falling into per-fect order.

This past July, while flying from theUSA to Switzerland, I couldn’t sleep awink because I felt a personal needto write about the 20 miracles I expe-rienced while working on Täuferjahr2007. Here are just two of these sto-ries:

Reist Family Connections

October 8, 2005, and it was timefor our big Reist Reunion, something

that had not happened for more than25 years. We middle-age folks want-ed to finally honor our senior relativesfor their great reunions of the 1950’s& 1960’s. By necessity, I was double-booked that weekend, for it was theonly time to host four Swiss guestsincluding Peter Opitz, a history pro-fessor at Zürich University specializ-ing in Heinrich Bullinger (1504-1575),an early leader in the SwissReformation.

As we approached the weekendwe learned a big surprise – Peter’smother was a Reist from Dürrenroth,Switzerland, the exact village whereour Reist family line originated! [PeterReist (c. 1702-1743) and wife,Anaclore Boyer, were 1724Anabaptist immigrants to LancasterCounty, Pa., who began our Reisthomestead of 540 acres in PennTownship, Manheim, Pa., with a 1734warrant and a 1738 patent fromWilliam Penn’s sons.] From our Swissvisitor, Peter Opitz, we also learnedhow the regular path to school forPeter’s wife, Elisabeth, was directlybeside Trachselwald Castle, the placewhere Anabaptists were imprisonedand tortured. (Nine months later wewalked those same paths withElisabeth, following in the footsteps ofour earlier Täufer relatives.)

March Quarterly Meeting - Continued from page 1an MA in Classics from the University of Chicago and has taught on Fulbrightfellowships in Pakistan and Austria. The author of many scholarly articlesand three previous books (the Martyrs’ Mirror is another area of research forhim), Lowry is a member of the Washington County, Maryland and FranklinCounty, Pennsylvania, Mennonite Church. Lowry will discuss the joys andchallenges of doing this work over the last decade. He has been supportedby the US-based Amsterdam Archives Committee through the LancasterMennonite Historical Society.

The Pennsylvania German Society isholding its annual meetings on June6-7, 2008 in conjunction with theYoung Center for Anabaptist andPietist Studies, Elizabethtown College,which is commemorating 300 yearssince the founding of the Church ofthe Brethren. Pa. German Society islooking for scholarly papers thatexamine issues relating to the Churchof the Brethren to be presented at theconference. Possible topics include:

issues pertaining to Church members;the relations between Brethren andother Pennsylvania Germans; religionamong the Pennsylvania Germans;comparisons or relationships betweenChurch and Plain Sect PennsylvaniaGermans. Contact Dr. William W.Donner (610-683-4249 [email protected]) for more infoor to submit an abstract of no morethan 500 words by February 22.


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Commissioned Art Print. After months of deliberations we learned that theEmmental’s Show Dairy would sponsor Liz Hess as their commissioned artist.Immediately, Liz and I began to brainstorm on a variety of themes for an artprint. We wanted a significant symbol for Täufer history yet also somethingthat contemporary folks would be glad to display. What could it be?

After scores of fruitless ideas and just as we came up to the deadline, wediscovered a marvelous photograph of Trachselwald and Die Furgge mountain.(Die Furgge is also thetitle of a best-sellingGerman book of historicalfiction about theAnabaptists by well-known Swiss writer,Katharina Zimmerman,now in its 6th printingsince initial publication in1989.) In the photo-graph, Trachselwald’speaked roof pointeddirectly to the highest mountain peak. Additionally, it showed lovely land-scape that was inviting as well as a true sample of the Emmental’s tremendousscenery.

Liz made the commissioned painting with this view in mind. Color printsare available for sale at the Society. Then, on July 28, 2007, as she and Itoured Switzerland’s Emmental, we together drove to a hillside byGammenthall. There we saw this exact view and we thanked God for the mir-acle of finding it. [To find this viewing spot in the Emmental, (which matchesthe commissioned painting by Liz Hess), travel south from Weier towardsSumiswald. Turn right at the small town of Gammenthal. A roadside signpoints to Rüegsbach and Newegg. Cross the railroad tracks and head up thehill. Go around 2-3 bends in this road. At the third bend, note a roadsidebench on the left side. Stop, relax, and enjoy this marvelous southeast view(the best timing is afternoon or early evening sun). Pray that the second SwissReformation will come to this “dry, and thirsty land.”]

In closing, I share a special prayer as an encouragement for new connec-tions with Swiss folks as they visit in the USA and/or for folks during upcom-ing visits in Switzerland. This prayer and 15 or 20 related new resources (art,books, drama, and music) at the Society library will surely contribute towardsunderstanding Täuferjahr’s amazing surprises.

Upcoming Tour: Colonial Churches ofLancaster County

Lancaster County’s first permanentsettlers were the Mennonites in

1710, but many other religiousgroups soon followed and estab-lished sizable populations in thearea. This tour is a look at the old-est congregations of the severaldenominations that developed incolonial Lancaster County.The tour scheduled for Saturday,

May 17, will leave the HistoricalSociety at 8 am and return approxi-mately 4:30 pm.

We will begin in the city ofLancaster and visit St. JamesEpiscopal Church, Trinity LutheranChurch and St. Mary’s CatholicChurch. From Lancaster we willtravel north to Lititz and tour thechurch (pictured below) and otherbuildings in the Moravian communi-ty. We will eat our packed lunchesin the the Lititz Springs Park. Wewill then make our way to Leola tovisit the Conestoga Church of theBrethren and continue to the oldLeacock Presbyterian Church nearGordonville. The tour will end atHeller’s Salem United Church ofChrist near Leola.

At each church a congregationalhistorian will meet the group to pro-vide input about the history of thecongrega-tion and itscurrentministries.

Thetour direc-tor will beDaniel L.Wenger,who isretiredfrom teach-ing localhistory,government and world cultures atLancaster Mennonite High School.He led the first edition of this tour in2006 as well as a tour of Lancastercity for the Historical Society. Herecently co-led a tour of theMellinger and StumptownMennonite congregations settle-ments.

Cost is $75 for nonmembers, $65for members. Call Dorothy at theSociety to register.

Opening Prayer: Service for International Days, Täuferjahr07Langnau, Switzerland, July 29, 2007

“Oh Lord, creator of heaven and earth, we have gathered from differ-ent directions and we stand in awe. The children of those who had toleave this region are here. The children of those who had to undertaketroublesome journeys have returned. And the children of those whostayed behind are here.

“We thank you, eternal God, that you have walked with us throughtime. Thank you that you were with us on our journeys … even when wewent wrong. Thank you for staying at our side. We praise you for yourfaithfulness.

Jesus Christ, you are The Way in which we walk. You are The Truthwe rely upon. We ask you to help us to meet each other with an openheart and with respect. Fill our hearts with your living hope. Throughyour Spirit, who unites into one what was separated … and who is ableto bridge the gulf between people and communities. We ask it in Jesusname. Amen. by Dorothee Bertschmann, minister at Sumiswald Reformed Church (2002-2007). Used by her permission.

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Dutch Anabaptists in NewAmsterdam (New York City),1610 to 1775

Come along on a journey of learning andadventure to retrace the colonial history of

early Dutch Mennonites in present-day New YorkCity. As we review the settlement’s connectionsto Mennonites in Philadelphia and their relationswith local Blacks and Indians, we will try toanswer the question, what became ofthe Dutch Mennonites who settled inNew Amsterdam in the 1600s?

Join us on Saturday, June 14, from 6am to 10 pm. Travel in comfortablecoach buses with breakfast and supper stops enroute. Experienced guide Daniel Ness leads this tour, a

repeat of the success-ful 2005 field trip.

In the morningwe’ll visit preservedDutch farmsteads inthe historic area ofBrooklyn whereDebra Moody,known as aMennonite, devel-oped her communi-ty. After a subwayride to Manhattanwe’ll take a walkingtour of historic

Anabaptist/Mennonite sites in the old citysouth of Wall Street, the boundary of the origi-

nal New Amsterdam settlement. Cost is $99 for nonmembers,

$89 for Society members, andincludes a buffet dinner. CallDorothy at the Society to register.

Upcoming Tour:

Paid SummerInternship for CollegeStudents

If you attend a Pennsylvania statecollege, you may be eligible to

work at the Lancaster MennoniteHistorical Society through the sum-mer work-study or community serv-ice program of PHEAA (thePennsylvania Higher EducationAssistance Agency). You earn realwages and gain real-life experienceat our thriving local historical societyworking in our archives, library,museum and book operations. For more information, [email protected] check out the PHEAA web site athttp://www.pheaa.org/workstudy/index.shtml#students

Library Catalog NowOnline!

To search the library’s catalogfrom home or anywhere you

have an Internet connection, go tohttp://catalog.library.lmhs.org

or visit the Society’s website(www.lmhs.org), choose the Librarylink, and click on the icon to searchthe catalog. While not a completelist of what is available (we are stilladding to it as the online catalog isunder construction) we wanted tolet you know that the bulk of it isnow available for your browsing.

50th BirthdayCelebration: AnnualMeeting, May 17

Join us on a lovely Saturdayevening in May to mark the

Society’s first half-century withour banquet and annual meet-ing. The strains of music and thebubbling aroma of a chocolatefountain will greet you in thefoyer of the Lancaster MennoniteSchool dining room, where ourmeal will be catered this year.

We are delighted to confirmthe participation of the MennoniteChildren’s Choir of Lancaster asour special musical guests. Thechildren in grades 2-8 will be join-ing us for this performance. Thisversatile group sings music fromaround the world.

John Ruth – Mennonite minister,author, filmmaker and heritage tourleader – will be this year’s featuredspeaker on the topic, “Personalitiesand Perspectives in the Story of theLancaster Mennonite HistoricalSociety.”

John has been connected withthe Lancaster Mennonite HistoricalSociety through the years, mostintensely during the writing of theLancaster Conference Mennonitehistory, The Earth Is the Lord’s, whenhe was known to sleep overnight inour archives, letting voices from thepast speak to him. Last year Johnauthored, Forgiveness: A Legacy ofthe West Nickel Mines Amish School.John also directed the award-winningPBS documentary, “The Amish: A

People of Preservation.” We hope that you will join us for

this special birthday celebration,which will include a historical time-line and PowerPoint photos like theone above. Cost for the banquet is$16.50 per adult and begins at 6:15pm on Saturday, May 17. All arewelcome. Plan now to attend.

Posed here in front of a tree dedi-cated to the Society’s founder andfirst director, Ira Landis, are pastdirectors Carolyn Wenger, 1976-2001(currently archivist and editor),Brinton Rutherford, 2001-2006, andBeth Graybill, 2006-present.

Lancaster Mennonite HistoricalSociety is one of the largest grass-roots Mennonite historical organiza-tions in the nations, “whose scopeand influence reach far beyondsoutheastern Pennsylvania,” accord-ing to the Young Center forAnabaptist and Pietist Studies atElizabethtown College.


chase at the Society. The instructor willprovide additional materials to supple-ment the text, including short dialogues,songs, proverbs and jokes, as well asvery simple homework assignments.Those completing the introductory classwill have a basic grasp of the language,its vocabulary and essential elements ofgrammar, for simple conversation andbasic reading with the aid of a diction-ary. Individuals who have had no previ-ous Pennsylvania German instructionshould enroll in the introductory course.

The intermediate/advanced class isdesigned for students with experiencestudying Pennsylvania German or forthose who have lived at one time oranother in a Dutch-speaking environ-ment. Through this class, students willexpand their Pennsylvania Germanvocabulary and conversation skills andwill be able to read almost anything writ-ten in the language. Students with priorPennsyl-vania German experience orthose who have some speaking abilityand would like to become literate inDutch may take the intermediate/advanced class.

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April 18-19 Genealogy Conference:CSI meets Roots

Crime scene investigators routinely relyon DNA and forensic evidence to

solve a crime; genealogists can use simi-lar tools to trace our roots. Join renownkeynote speaker, Colleen Fitzpatrick, author oftwo books about forensic genealogy, on this journey to discover how DNAand forensics change the way we research family history.

This year we are back again in the comfortable surroundings ofLancaster’s Eden Resort Inn. Saturday events include a plenary address byColleen, morning and afternoon workshop sessions (choose four), a delilunch buffet in the courtyard, time to browse dozens of genealogy vendortables, and a three-course dinner banquet at 6 pm featuring Dr. ErikPuffenberger of the Clinic for Special Children in Strasburg, Pa., discussinggenetic research in the Lancaster County Plain community.

Veteran workshop leaders Jane Davidson, genealogy enthusiast, and RossBaughman, journalist/genealogist, will be joined by Stephen Morse, of SanFrancisco, Ca., leading a workshop on “One-Step” web-pages for genealogi-cal searches. In addition, a representative from Family Tree DNA, the pre-mier DNA testing organization for family historians, will be on hand for DNAsampling on site.

Optional Friday events include a day-long research trip via comfortablemotor-coach to your choice of three archival sites in Washington, DC, andan evening auction of rare and out-of-print books at Lancaster MennoniteHistorical Society.

Brochures are available from the Society or on our web site atwww.lmhs.org. This year’s genealogy conference is not to be missed!

The Lancaster MennoniteHistorical Society appreciatesour hard-working board. Above,secretary, Vernon Good, at workat a recent meeting. Below,Becky Gochnauer, 1719 HansHerr House director, chats withlong-term board member, MarvinSauder.

Several years ago,at my son’s

school, instead ofexchangingValentines the chil-dren celebratedFriendship Day, anafternoon of stories,songs and games about the power offriendship.

This season, as we are looking backover our 50-year history as an organi-zation, I am celebrating the friends ofthis Society who have made possibleour work and ministry for half a centu-ry. Those who went before us passedon a deep commitment to followingJesus. They sustained our identity.They nurtured our faith. We owethem a debt of gratitude.

And we are also indebted to newfriends of the organization, 40 ofwhom joined as first-time memberslast fall. As one wrote, “I am veryexcited with my new membership andhope to be visiting often. I find theresources in your library truly amazing.Not to mention how friendly and help-ful your entire staff has been.”

Organizations like ours existbecause of such shared connections,new friends and old, past and present.

Mennonite World Conference pres-ident Nancy Heisey wrote recentlyabout the African practice of “ances-tor worship.” For African Christians,Jesus Christ is the Great Ancestorwhom they seek to imitate.

In similar fashion, we want tohonor and emulate our ancestors fortheir faithfulness while recognizingthat they, like us, had all too humanflaws. Goodness as well as failure ispart of every generation. But theirstruggles, stories, and challenges caninstruct and enliven our present.

As novelist Sue Monk Kidd haswritten, “Stories have to be told orthey die, and when they die, we can’tremember who we are or why we’rehere.”

We value your faith and friend-ship as together we seek to remem-ber who we are and where wecome from.

Beth Graybill

DIRECTOR’S REFLECTIONS

“Pennsylvania German heritage is atreasure … the Pennsylvania Germandialect makes the ‘Keystone State’unique.” — Dr. Michael Werner, 2007Pennsylvania German lecturer atFranklin & Marshall College

As a student of Pennsylvania Dutchput it recently, learning the lan-

guage helps you understand andappreciate the warm and colorfulPennsylvania German culture that is ahallmark of Lancaster County, in gen-eral, and of its Plain People, in particu-lar.

Beginning the second week inMarch, the Lancaster MennoniteHistorical Society will again be offer-

ing ten-week language classes forbeginning or intermediate/advancedstudents of Pennsylvania German.We are the only educational institu-tion in Lancaster County to offerthese courses, and one of the few inthe nation to offer in-class conversa-tion with native Old Order speakers,for whom it is a living language.

Keith [“Butch”] Reigart, fluent inPennsylvania German and a native ofYork County, Pa., will be teachingour Introductory class. His ties to thePennsylvania German dialect go backto his early years growing up withDutch-speaking grandparents in hishousehold.

Butch was employed for morethan 35 years as a foreign languagespecialist for the U.S. government.His formal education includes a B.A.in German from the State Universityof New York and an M.A. in Russianfrom Middlebury College, Vermont.This gives him a good grasp of thelanguage learning process.

Since returning home in 2006,Butch’s primary focus has been onthe preservation and processing of aunique collection of PennsylvaniaGerman audio recordings for use bystudents of the dialect, in addition toteaching dialect classes in YorkCounty. He has many Dutch-speak-ing friends, including Old OrderMennonites and Amish, in Lancasterand Berks counties. We are delight-ed to have Butch teaching theIntroductory course this spring.

John B. Martin, a native speaker ofPennsylvania German, will be teach-ing the Intermediate/Advanced class.Interested and outgoing, John is anexperienced schoolteacher and song-leader among the Old OrderMennonites. He has taught Germanfor many years and is the publisherof a songbook. Since PennsylvaniaDutch is an everyday language forhim, John is well positioned to bringin to the classroom real-life dialogues,conversation and stories unique tothe Lancaster County Plain People.John is an asset in the classroom, andwe are glad to welcome his teachingfor our more experienced students.

Due to overwhelming localresponse, the Introductory class isnow full. However, Butch has agreed

to teach a second Introductoryclass on Thursday evenings. It willmeet at the same time as theIntermediate/Advanced class taughtby John Martin, and there will besome interchange between classes,at points. Introductory Class-B will beheld on Thursday evenings fromMarch 13 to May 15.

The Intermediate/Advanced classwill be held on Thursday eveningsfrom March 13 to May 15. Bothclasses meet from 7-9 pm at theLancaster Mennonite HistoricalSociety, 2215 Millstream Road,Lancaster. (We are located just offRoute 30 East near Tanger Outlets.)Cost is $100 for members, $115 fornonmembers.

The introductory class will use asits basic text, Introduction toPennsylvania German, which providesa gentle entry into the language forbeginners. Accompanying CDs allowthe student to work on pronunciationand basic phrases at home. The text-book and CDs are available for pur-


Classes will touch on the cul-ture and way of life of the variousgroups of Pennsylvania Germans.Here are a few jokes to give you afeel for their healthy sense ofhumor and ability to laugh atthemselves – and of the fun onecan have learning PennsylvaniaDutch:

• Mir reschpeckde die alt Eld.Awwer net wann mir en altHinkel hen fer Middaag! [We respect old age. But notwhen we have an old chicken fordinner!]

• “Maem, unserSchulmeeschdern hot mer gsaat,ich sett en ‘Seiklapiedia’ hawwe.”[Mom, our teacher told me Ishould have a ‘cyclopedia.”]

“Du laafscht in die Schul wiedie annere Kinner!”[You’ll walk to school like theother children]

•“Wie denkscht, Dockder?”[What do you think, doctor?]

“Well, die Waahret saage, ichgleich net wie dei Mann guckt.”[Well, to tell you the truth, I don’tlike the way your husband looks.]

“Ich gleich aah net wie erguckt. Awwer er sarrigt fer uns,un er iss gut zu mir un zu dieKinner.”[I don’t like the way he lookseither. But he takes care of us andhe’s good to me and the kids.]

New Instructors Enliven Spring PennsylvaniaGerman Classes DIALECT CLASS

REGISTRATION FORM

2008 Introductory Class-BThursdays, March 13-May 15

❑ Members at $100 per person❑ Nonmembers $115 per person

2008 Intermediate/Advanced ClassThursdays, March 13-May 15

❑ Members at $100 per person❑ Nonmembers $115 per person

$ _______ enclosed for registration(s)

Name(s) _______________________________________________

Address _____________________City ________________________State _______ ZIP ____________Phone ______________________Email _______________________

Contact Dorothy Siegrist at theSociety, 717-393-9745 for more information

Checks payable to:Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society

2215 Millstream RoadLancaster, PA 17602-1499
